FICO and TransUnion Kenya partnered to broaden access to credit in Kenya. “By leveraging enriched data and analytics, lenders can now make more informed decisions,...
The New York towns of Neversink and Denning have been approved as a Banking Development District (BDD), a designation that is meant to support access to...
Visa is betting that Nigerian FinTech Moniepoint will accelerate growth for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Africa. The global payments giant invested in the...
Digital payments are growing in Latin America as companies like Mercado Libre and TerraPay rapidly advance digital banking and digital wallets in the region. Central...
MoneyLion launched a partnership with YouTube superstar Jimmy Donaldson, better known as “MrBeast.” The FinTech is partnering on “Beast Games,” a new competition series by...
Upbound Group, the owner of the Rent-A-Center and Acima brands, agreed to acquire financial health technology company Brigit for up to $460 million. The planned...
The percentage of households in the United States that are unbanked declined to a record low in 2023. At 4.2% of U.S. households, or 5.6...
In Latin America, where many consumers are unbanked or underbanked, roughly three-quarters of consumers don’t have credit cards, so prepaid cards are widely used to...
Visa is injecting fresh funding into four startups that graduated from the first batch of its Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator program. The investments highlight Visa’s...